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Hey everyone!

I'm building my first water cooling build, and i'm going to pick up a new graphics card before I invest all the money. I currently have a single Asus 680. Good card, however, I game at 5760x1080 and the new games are starting to put a hammer on the card.
I've always been a Nvidia guy, however, I have been following the 290x really closely. Seems in the 600-700 dollar price point it offers performance close to a titan. I would prefer to stick with a single card. Mainly due to frame latency issues and that way I wouldn't have to buy a bigger power supply. However, I really don't want to fork out 1k for a titan, and I'm unsure whether the 780 will be enough horse power to solve my problems with low frame rates on high or ultra details.

My questions for you you guys are, What are your opinions on the 780 vs titan vs 290x? I know no full fledged reviews have been done yet. My second question is, do you think nvidia will plan to drop the price of the titan fairly soon to battle with the 290x? I have heard rumors of nvidia planning to lower prices. The only thing is the titan would need to be max 800 for me to be interested.

Any comments would be really appreciated!
 
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If compute performance is a concern, in that aspect the Titan definitely outperforms the 780 by a large margin. The thing is basically a Tesla workstation card adapted for gaming (or the other way around if you look into the history of GK110).
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Time to reset your thinking. Nvidia does a great job with the SLI frame rates/smoothing. They have been working on it for years and their present drivers are excellent. AMD hasn't udated their drivers for smooth frame rates on triple monitors yet. Unfortunately 4GB 680's are about obsolete and expensive. Go with two GTX 770's. You need 4GB for with your displays, you are running into RAM problems with your puny 2GB DDR5 ram. You will need to step up to a 750-850W supply though. But with triple displays, you need the best in graphics. You have to go SLI. Those two GTX770's will bury any Titan or R9-290X.


 
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You might be right on this one. I have been trying to avoid the two cards. It might be the only way to go though. Is there any single card you would be happy in triple monitors? I'll be water cooling too. So if I do two cards that's probably another 140 for the block and fittings
 
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There will be price cuts and there will be something new released, possibly the Titan Ultra, or something else based on a GK110 core. Good thing, it seems that more will be revealed next week at an event in Montreal.

Ultimately though, if you want Titan level performance for cheap, one of the many factory overclocked GTX 780s are perfectly capable of beating the Titan by a few percent right out of the box for around $650, cheaper than a R9-290X, and getting even cheaper over the coming weeks. If you don't exactly need 6GB of memory, that's the way to go.
 
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I didn't know they were having a event next week. Any idea when? So is the 780 really that close to titan? The 780 is 3 or 4gb? At that high of resolutions would I need 6gb?
 
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Well, I am finally seeing Titans at a discount, $995. So it has begun. I wouldn't expect them to fall too fast, but you never know.
 
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that is a start. haha so far it seems the 290x and titan are split in terms of performance. I assume if the 290x comes in around 650, they would have to decrease the titans price. Ill be watercooling, so I will be able to overclock the gpu a fair amount. Hopefully anyways!
 
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If AMD's Hawaii event is any indication, it seems that the 290X is going to be a beast for 5760x1080 gaming.
Though there are no official benchmarks, so we don't really know how well it performs. Some leaked benches has it trading blows with a Titan, but grain of salt and all that.
Also the 780 is basically a Titan with some CUDA cores disabled and half the VRAM, its pretty damn close in terms of performance.

My advice, wait a week or two. By then the 290X will have launched and no doubt the tech community will be buried in benchmarks and reviews of it.
 
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I think that is the way to go. Ill go ahead and wait a few weeks and see what happens. I keep feeling like there is a reason the titan is so much more. However, besides 2gb more memory I can't really find a good reason
 
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If compute performance is a concern, in that aspect the Titan definitely outperforms the 780 by a large margin. The thing is basically a Tesla workstation card adapted for gaming (or the other way around if you look into the history of GK110).
 
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